104 W. J. ENRIGHT. 



The letter g is hard in every case. Dh is pronounced nearly 

 as tli in that, with however, a slight, initial d sound. N preceding 

 2/, as in Nyee, has the sound of n in canon, thus Nyee is pronounced 

 nearly as in-yee, but quickly as one word. The final h is guttural, 

 and somewhat like the ch in the German, but is not so marked. 

 The accented syllable is shown in the usual way throughout the 

 paper, and where there are two accented syllables in the same 

 word, they are both marked. 



The Kutthung Grammar. 



1. The Kut'-thung dialect is spoken amongst the Aborigines 

 living- along the southern bank of the Karuah River and the south 

 shore of Port Stephens. It was at one time spoken amongst the 

 tribes lying between Port Stephens, West Maitland and Paterson, 

 but with the exception of the Kutthung, they are now extinct. 



The adjoining tribes were the Gummiijjinga], 1 inhabiting the 

 territory on the north shore of Port Stephens and the Karuah; 

 the Warringal, 2 living between Telegherry and Pipeclay Creeks ; 

 the Warrimee, living between Telegherry Creek, Port Stephens, 

 the Sea Shore and the Hunter River: the Garawerigal, 3 between 

 the Myall River and the sea shore ; the Yeerunggal, 4 about the 

 Myall Lakes ; the Birrimbai, in the neighbourhood of Bungwall 

 Flat ; and the Birroonggal. 5 on the Myall River. 



2. There are only two numbers, the singular and plural, and each 

 number has three persons. The personal pronouns are used for 

 the present tense of the verb "to be," which has no real existence 

 in that form e.g. "Nut'-wa" is the equivalent, not only for "I," 

 but also of "I am." "Yee-nu-ar" is the Kutthung term for 

 "thou art" as well as for "thou," and in this latter sense in forming 

 the future and past tenses. 



1 People of the Spear. - People of the Streams — (In Proc. Roy. Soo 

 N.S.W., Vol. xxxm., p. 124, I have erroneously called this tribe the 

 Doowalligal ) 3 People of the Sea. 4 People of the long and narrow- 

 place. 5 People of the deep river. 



